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Hi Carl! Miss me? I am fully aware of the problem with "noise" on some tapes which trigger the "copyright" problem. Thing is, this can happen at any pint along the length of the tape, not necessariy just at the start. It is the condition of the tape(if home-recorded) which is likely to trigger the problem. With pre-recorded(commercially-issued) VHS tapes(Betamax having been elimitated from the videotape battle after about the second or third generation of machines coming onto the market), the copyright protection would run the length of the tape and, at a guess, is encoded into the linear audio track. Anyhow, I was just commenting on being successful at using PD8 to capture some video content off VHS(PAL-system) tapes recently.
Cheers for now.
Neil F.
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I was going to respond to your query but found the thread locked, so I'll put my comments in as a new topic.
MTS files, also referred to as AVCHD or H.264AVC, I've had no problem editing these types of video in PD8, but I'd suggest first copying the files to your computer's native hard-drive before editing. You may find them easier to handle than if they stayed on your camera's SD-card or inbuilt hard-drive(as some cameras feature these days). You could also remove the card and insert it into a card-reader either connected to your computer via USB port or built into your computer, but again it would be better to copy the contents from the card to your native hard-drive. However, having said that, if the contents are stored of a flash-drive, or thumb-drive as you Americans call it, plugging that to your computer, you could edit your content from the flash drive and store the finished "product" on your computer's hard-drive, but that's from a flash drive, not an SD card. Hope this info is of use to you.
Cheers!
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For the past three printers I've had, each had a label-print function built in to them, all Canon models, the one I'm using now is an IP-4850 which had associated software for creating labels. I've had no trouble in making music CD labels for German-language songs that I've burned to disc. If I want to create a title for a track that requires the "etzet"(double-s that looks like a fancy 'B' and is also called "scharfes-s[sharp-s]) or the umlaut(two dots above a, o, or u) then I prepare the titles in Microsoft Word, then copy/paste them to the text box in my Canon label designing software. The fonts used are as available in the Microsoft Office fonts provided for Word, Publisher, etc. If the type of script required isn't there, you may need to type in a phonetic interpretation of the title in the wanted language, using regular fonts.
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It depends on how many audio tracks are selected to be displayed. As you chose extra tracks, they are compressed on your screen to make some room but you have to scroll down to see each track, whether it be video overlay or extra audio track. On PD8 I have two extra audio(music) tracks I can add as needed, but to see them, I need to scroll down as they are grouped together with the main music track, below the voice(narration) track. You may well be using a later version of Power Director, in which case, you'll likely have extra music tracks to work with, but as you open your project, you'll need to ensure that all your selected music tracks are shown by clicking on the icon to add more PiP or Music Tracks, that's the button to the right of the timeline/storyboard option in your editing area. Hope this was of some help. Cheers!
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Hi, gang! It's me, Neil Forbes. I pop by every now and then to see what's happening here and again I notice some changes to the way these comments(posts) are presented. While I don't have any quibbles about the overall look of DZ(that's Dee-Zed!), I note that the accursed "catchpa", dressed up as a "verification code" still lurks here(though thankfully not in replies to other posts). Like I said once before, as members, our bona-fides are provided upon log-in by our e-mail addresses and passwords(known only to us individually) so there really is no need for the catchpa, or verification code as you euphomistically call it.
As for me, I'm still using PD8 but a recent attempt at transferring VHS to my computer via PD8 was, I'm happy to report, successful. Though I do remember some having issues with home-recorded VHS tapes triggering the "This tape is copyrighted...." problems some time back. I remember suggesting the use of an outside programme(other software) for initial capture, then import the unedited capture to Power Director for editing and final DVD write-to-disc(authoring). I wonder how people fared with that situation.
That's all for me at this moment. Cheers!
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Ah, but that's only because you Yanks never learned proper English
I'm with Fenman on that one, Carl! Grab a dictionary, and I don't mean a Websters, get yourself a PROPER dictionary, an Oxford or MacQuarie(Australian) dictionary! Cheers!
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Ah, but that's only because you Yanks never learned proper English
I'm with Fenman on that one, Carl! Grab a dictionary, and I don't mean a Websters, get yourself a PROPER dictionary, an Oxford or MacQuarie(Australian) dictionary! Cheers!
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Hi, Barry! The cameras I have are both Panasonic(brand). One is an SDR-S7, the other, an upgraded model, SDR-S71. The audio recording on these cameras is quite clean but the S7 has one shortcoming, it doesn't pick up the stereo field as well as the S71, which picks up the stereo field superbly. You really get the "spread". The only thing is, there's no provision for external microphone connection on these cameras. Some early machines(and they were "machines" in the sense that they had tape drive mechanisms in them) had that very provision for external microphones, which was useful if you wanted to do a "piece to camera", stand in front of the camera at a certain distance and "speak to your viewing audience", as it were. You could plug a mic in, stand back as far as the cable will allow, then do your piece(be it an intro, or an interview with someone, or whatever it might be). Regrettably, and I have to be honest here, you can't really do that with cameras like those I cited, the mics aren't capable of picking up much outside in open fields, fine indoors, not so good outdoors! One thing I do notice, and this goes back to my older Samsung mono Hi-8 camera, the microphone seems to pick up what's behind the camera better than what's in front of it! As for buying an SD card-based camera with an external microphone socket... you'll need mucho moolah for a purchase like that, in Australian or American dollars!
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Carl, I think you missed punchline of the joke! Spiders, web-sites! And I don't think I said anything about monitoring weather, either. I suggested using a "web-cam" for live video streaming, as I believe they connect straight to a computer via a USB port.
P.S., on the subject line, I corrected the spelling, adding the missing "ue" to the end of the word.
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solve the burning issue
Nice choice of words, there, considering your Blu-ray drive problems! But I hope you get it sorted soon!
Cheers!
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Hi, Benonemusic. If your Blu-ray burner currently plays havoc, until such time as you remedy that situation, why not burn the clip to a regular DVD?
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emmettfitz8394: I do take a degree of offence to your remarks, as I was only trying to help. And for the record, digital video cameras can and do give a pretty good account of themselves in the audio department, as they record the audio digitally as well as the video.
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Carl, aren't there any other ways you could do that? A webcam, for example, but not necessarily going onto the web(internet)?
By the way, did you know that it was arachnids who created the internet? Spiders have had their own "websites" for eons! 
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If this is of any use, I have two SD-card cameras, both Panasonic, one is SDR-S7, the other a later model, SDR-S71. They came with software, both discs since misplaced. but that's of no real consequence. I can import the contents in either of two ways, connect the camera to the computer(as if I still had the software) the camera, as Carl312 says, becomes like a removable hard-drive, with the SD card still loaded in the camera, you access the content with a few "clicks" and copy same to a folder on your computer. The alternative method is to take the card from the camera and insert it in a card-reader, then copy the content to your computer.
That's the way I normally do it.
Cheers for now!
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Is this camera a digital video device or an optical(film-based) camera? If the former, why do you need an separate audio recorder? A digital video camera captures both sound and vision, wide-screen(16:9) with stereo audio, already in synch. If it's the latter, I can understand the use of an external tape or mp3 recorder, but such as those old film-based beasties are museum pieces these days. Before your question can be answered, it's necessary to know this info.
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You could always have turned the camera upside down.... 
A bit o' fun from Fenman... Cheers, Mike!
But seriously Carl, I see now what you're trying to do, you want live streaming to "keep an eye" on something or other, visually monitor a site for whatever purpose(not for me to know that purpose). And it needs to be right-way-up. Got it now!
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Deeply sorry if I appeared to ignore your first comment, Mike. It wasn't intentional, but another contributor made a bit of a joke and I thought I'd carry it along for a while, hence the "Hi-8, Hi-8, Hi-8, Hi-8-itty-date-de-date!" bit. I take on board your comments re: keeping the closing bracket away from the numeral 8, put a slash(/) there instead.
Cheers for now.
P.S. had a bugger of a time logging in! I have this page in my Favourites list of websites, clicked on it, tried three or four times, only to be greeted with "This page cannot be found". Finally got in, more through good luck than anything else.
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Carl, hi! What I was referring to is "Video rotation" in "Power Tools". If the captured video is "upside down" you can rotate it in the editing process(I believe up to 270 degrees). This should correct the effect by rotating 180 degrees. So uploading directly from the camera(I assume to YouTube) would be a non-starter. In any case, wouldn't you want to "tidy up" the video first before putting it out for everyone to see via YouTube?
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Hi, Mike(Fenman) Please don't take any offence, the last one from rbowser prompted my little bit of fun. Actually, I've long since moved on from using Hi-8 format, I now shoot with a Panasonic SDR-S71 digital camera where the old Hi-8 beastie was a mono(audio) Samsung make.
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Well, Fenman(Mike), You could say that he "has-been" an expert but now he's just a spurt, a drip under pressure! 
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Before Jaime-Esque "locks" this thread, I'd like to add one last thought. I think our Australian TV stations, even now with 16:9 wide-screen digital transmission, may still be 25 frames per second. My DVDs using that frame rate play okay through my TV's inbuilt player, so I'm guessing 25fps is still "ruling the roost" here!
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